Here's a recent? thread on this topic. Note post #45 which references 19th century composer Robert Schumann who aspired to be high flying professional pianist, before turning to composition. He...
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Here's a recent? thread on this topic. Note post #45 which references 19th century composer Robert Schumann who aspired to be high flying professional pianist, before turning to composition. He...
Probably not this complicated: https://web.archive.org/web/20210518070633/https://www.mandozine.com/media/CGOW/derrington.html . This way is easier: https://mandozine.com/media/CGOW/derrington.html
I have no useful info here, but note that the name on the headstock is Bruhn, not Brunh.
1/64" at the first fret would be considered very high and off the charts for me personally. Take a look at Frank Ford's [URL="http://frets.com/FretsPages/pagelist.html" site[/URL]. Here's the page...
Re Paul's site availability: I typed in lutherie.net a couple times this am, and Paul's site comes right up. You do have to click on the violin, to get to a site map.
Paul Hostetter's page on maintaining tuners just in case you haven't looked at it. If it were me, I would remove string first and check how it turns without tension, then remove tuners on that side...
Last time I went to lutherie.net, it wasn't there. I had to go to archive.org(Wayback Machine) to re-read that page. It's not too hard to dig it up, if you have some experience with Wayback; it'll...
I think Mark is looking for a term like "chord notation" or "chord shorthand", but one that is widely accepted to describe such chord representation as 0-2-3-0 or 0-0-2-3 or 2-4-5-x. It'd be good if...
Looks like IV is selling the A style kit for $150.
(i'm not Dale) Here is a mention of the Sullivan stash. Don't know how much redwood was involved, but Bruce did have some nice redwood. Yours looks like a very nice piece of wood.
benny
If you run 'international violin' in the search window on the builders forum page, you'll get lots of results 201586. I built a couple of them around 2005 or 2006, they were well worth the money. I...
Should I know who's playing this -- dave17120?
That's Dave Hynds: Mandolinluthier.com
Nope, this one
Chordify has a playalong version of AJ and the Bros(Harvest Moon), if that appeals to you.
benny
Lots of opinions, and some science re the effect of pickguards on tone and volume in this old thread.
...Here it is Post 41
The fret close to the nut is called the "zero" fret. That's the one you should measure scale length from; all the strings should be touching it. The "nut" in this case is just locating the strings...
Measure distance from zero fret to 12th fret and double it; that the nominal scale length(actual will be slightly longer-maybe 1/8"). I suspect bridge is located incorrectly.
benny
I know nothing about octaves, but... I ran "octave spacing" in the CBOM search forum and got a few entries. Here's one with some genuine luthiers contributing.
benny
Also known around these parts as a "reverse scroll" or "smurf" mandolin. You can use those terms to search the MCafe "Looking for Information" forum for more information, if you're inclined. Here's...
Finial like on a lamp? Resembles acorn nut, or cap nut, but meant to be finger tightened. Assembly aid?
If you run "Condino douglas" in this forum's search, you'll get some results from back in the aughts. Whether suitable for flat tops: don't think that ever came up.
benny
Looks like it's in the Tabledit library here on the Cafe. You'll need the free tefview program(link in Tabledit Library under Learn and Listen dropdown)
Discussed in Looking for Info Here.
That sounds like a problem at the nut, if so, most likely slots are too narrow.